Empire Games

Charles Stross builds a new series with Empire Games expanding on the world he created in the Family Trade series a new generation of paratime travellers walk between parallel universes. . The year is 2020. It''s seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire and the newly-reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world. But Miriam Burgeson commissioner in charge of the shadowy Ministry of Intertemporal Research and Intelligence—the paratime espionage agency tasked with catalyzing the Commonwealth''s great leap forward—has a problem. For years she''s warned everyone: The Americans are coming. Now their drones arrive in the middle of a succession crisis.. In another timeline the U.S. has recruited Miriam''s own estranged daughter to spy across timelines in order to bring down any remaining world-walkers who might threaten national security.. Two nuclear superpowers are set on a collision course. Two increasingly desperate paratime espionage agencies try to find a solution to the first contact problem that doesn''t result in a nuclear holocaust. And two women—a mother and her long-lost daughter—are about to find themselves on opposite sides of the confrontation.. At the Publisher''s request this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.